Posts in 2023
  • DB in K8S: Pros & Cons

    2023-12-06 in Database

    WeChat Column | 中文版 | Medium Whether databases should be housed in Kubernetes/Docker remains highly controversial. While Kubernetes (k8s) excels in managing stateless applications, it has fundamental drawbacks with stateful services, especially …

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  • NewSQL: Distributive Nonsens

    2023-05-07 in Database

    WeChat Column As hardware technology advances, the capacity and performance of standalone databases have reached unprecedented heights. In this transformative era, distributed (TP) databases appear utterly powerless, much like the “data middle …

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Posts in 2019
  • Is running postgres in docker a good idea?

    2019-01-13 in Database

    For stateless app services, containers are an almost perfect devops solution. However, for stateful services like databases, it’s not so straightforward. Whether production databases should be containerized remains controversial. From a …

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